28, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
We have. all varieties _ in 
HYDRANGEAS. 
Hart Street - 
THE PIERCE NURSERIES 
Telephone 97. 
TREES, SHRUBS, ROSES and VINES 
IN ALL SIZES 
EVERG REENS And VARIETIES 
We dig all our Evergreens with a ball of earth, and they can be 
planted the same day from. our nurseries: and they will grow. 
tubs 
and pots, if wanted, also 
Beverly Farms 
LOST IN A BLIZZARD IN 
THE MOUNTAINS OF NEW MEXICO 
A Newspaper Man's Experience of Danger, Hunger and 
Sickness on a Drive through the Mexican Hamlets 
[By M. J. Brown, Editor Little Valley (N. Y.) Hub.) 
(Continued from last week.) 
The cold was intense, the blizzard 
was increasing and I began to won- 
der how I would look to these Mexi- 
can mountaineers with my lly white 
hands folded. 
We stopped the rig-and discussed 
prospects, and while the ways and 
means committee was yet at it, a 
Mexiean on horseback passed us and 
he said snow was six feet deep north 
of us. Bloom bolted, and asked the 
driver to take him to a miner’s cabin 
on the stage route to Taos, where he 
would stay until the blizzard stop- 
ped and the stage could get through, 
going north. 
I didn’t want to die in the moun- 
tain, and asked the driver to take 
me to the nearest point on a railroad. 
We let Bloom out on the way, and 
we turned back west for a twenty- 
mile drive to a mountain station. 
I will never forget that drive of 
six hours. Too sick to sit up and 
nearly frozen, yet in places along the 
trail | was obliged to walk because 
of the steepness of the ascert. 
But we made it just as the train 
was due south. I went into the little 
depot and lay down on the _ floor 
behind the stove. The driver left 
me and started for his 50 miles re- 
turn trip. I was picturing warm 
ears, back to Sante Fe, and a doctor. 
But my trip was far fron: the finish. 
A hoodoo was camping on my trail, 
and he wasn’t through with me. 
Just as Lhad got nartially thawed 
out the north-bound train came in. I 
remember of the engineer coming 
into the depot and of hearing lim 
say the south-bound train would not 
eet in before night. Ilad I realized 
what this meant for me | would have 
taken this'train north, but l was too 
sick to realize or care. 1 was warm, 
and the Mexican concoction and the 
driver’s aconite were working off. 
The train pulled out, and I found 
{ was alone—absolutely alone. The 
fire got low and t vo! up to put on 
more coal. There was vo coal: there 
was no station ageut: no wires rua 
into the depot; there was no town. 
Down the track a short distance was 
a section house, the oniy building in 
sight. I went to it. It was locked. 
Then it dawned on me I had to 
make a hustle for myself or I would 
be in cold storage long before the 
train went south that night. 
Not a piece of wood or a bit of coal 
could I find, but under the station 
platform I found a box someone had 
fed his horse in and hidden. I broke 
it up and kindled the fire, then 1 
took. the seuttle and one of the 
boards from the box and_ between 
the rails I would scrape up the en- 
gine cinders deposited there. 
The cinders. were more than. half 
snow, but I would thaw off the snow 
and put the cinders in the stove, 
and by working industriously, for 
seven hours I kept from freezing, as 
there was enough unburned coal in 
the sereenings to make a half a fire 
and keep me half warm. 
Feeling good, I would have taken 
things as they came, made the most 
of them, and almost welcomed the 
experience for the story material it 
afforded. But sick as I had been, 
so weak I could hardly hft the seut- 
tle of cinders to the platform, and 
without a mouthful of food for over 
24 hours—well those were the long- 
est hours, and that was the hardest 
day’s work I ever put in. Could I 
have found an ax or any tool I 
would have torn up the depot plat- 
form for fuel. I got one loose board 
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Bm AAAI AIEEE IN TU UE 
Mrs. James B. Dow has ‘returned 
home, after a pleasant visit at the 
‘‘Maplehurst’’ at Middleton. 
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Deinstadt 
who have been the caretakers of the 
C. H. Tweed estate since last fall, 
have again taken up their residence 
at their home on Haskell street. 
Mr. and Mrs. James Zampbell of 
Greenwood avenue, have the sym- 
pathy of their friends in the loss of 
their five months’ old son Robert, 
who passed away last Wednesday 
afternoon. : 
The Sarah W. Whitman club were 
citertained Wednesday afternoon 
by Mrs. Walter Wright. 
On Sunday morning at the Farms 
Baptist church, the pastor will take 
for his sermon, ‘‘The Beatitudes.’ 
In the evening, the subjeet will be 
‘“The two Foundations.’’ Musie by 
the choir will be a feature of the ser- 
vice. : 
Mrs. Neal Rantoul, Mrs. Q. A. 
Shaw, jr., and Rev. Clarence -S. 
Pond have been chosen to represent 
this seetion of the city on the Board 
of Directors of the Beverly depart- 
ment of the Society for the Preven- 
tion of Cruelty to Children. 
The regular monthly business 
meeting of the Farms firemen will 
be held next Monday evening at the 
West street engine house. 
At district court Wednesday, Pat- 
rick Kelley, who gave his home as 
Beverly Farms, was arraigned for 
drunkenness. He created a little 
amusement when asked if he knew 
the name of the officer at the Farms, 
by replying: ‘‘I think they call him 
‘Skip.’’’ He also asked for the 
loan of a week when fined $5.- He 
ought to know the popular day offi- 
cer at the Farms, known as ‘‘Skip,”’ 
as he arrested Kelley again yester- 
day morning. 
off with a stone, but could not break 
it or split it, and had to give it up. 
But the train came at last, about 
10 o’clock that night and never did 
a locomotive whistle sound so wel- 
come. The train men were very 
kind to me and did everything to 
make me comfortable on the ‘four 
hours’ ride back to Sante Fe. There 
I found a doctor, and in 24 hours 
was back in the game, ready for 
anything circumstances might push 
up—barring anything that looked 
or smelled of snow. 
Aubuquerque, N, M., Mar. 20. 
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